Despite reading the article by Skehan on tasked-based instruction, I still find myself a little confused on what exactly task based instruction is. While reading the article, I found myself getting lost in all the different approaches, perspectives, measurements, and critiques of task. It went from a rapid overview of history to some really research packed ideas based on many different aspects of TESOL which started to confuse me on what exactly the point was. Although the article does seem to present relevant, data supported, and well-formed arguments from different perspectives of task based instruction, I didn’t feel that my previous knowledge on task-based instruction was strong enough to totally follow this article. Unfortunately, I don’t feel I comprehended this article enough to write a well-organized blog with some of my own personalized thinking and I look forward to going over it in class.
Chapter 5, on the other hand, was an easy read which highlighted many important situations a teacher would most definitely find themselves faced with while trying to implement cooperative learning! I am glad to have read this chapter for many reasons. One, working at the ELI as a tutorial teacher requires me to used many cooperative learning strategies like group work (and all the problems we may face with that), noise levels, timing, attention, and etc. I found this chapter to be useful and easily relatable as we have all been in class before and been taught in many different ways. It also gave many different suggestions for one opportunity which I really liked!
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